skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would be drastically different pre-2010 before everything became a javascript application. Back then the majority of web sites and their pages actually contained text for readers to read. Nowadays everything is just unreadable javascript code that might execute and produce accessible text if all the stars are aligned.

The web as a javascript application delivery system is the worst thing that has happened for accessibility in the last 30 years. But it sure does make it cheaper for companies/institutions to develop in teams and run. And they can even monetize the user this way.
I think the Windows equivalent of this software is Synchronous Audio Router: https://github.com/eiz/SynchronousAudioRouter

I also find it interesting that all of the examples are for routing DAWs to video call apps. Don’t these apps have screen sharing and wouldn’t that be higher quality than using the microphone input?
> The casual racial stereotyping is where you lose me.

Nothing "casual" about it. Very deliberate. White people completely unwilling to see blatant racism (e.g. in hiring) when it stares them in the face.
If people are genuinely happy they don't start doing things to excess. Eating to excess is usually an attempt to distract oneself from something else, a 'cope'.

That only happens in a society that is not rich and happy.

If people are actually rich and happy you see them take up expensive sports, golf, tennis, horseback riding. They rarely get fat unless there's something personally wrong with them.
Not sure what you mean by a fairy tale definition of a promised land, we are talking about actual land that they've actually lived in for thousands of years (though naturally not all of it continuously, after the Roman exile not that many Jews were left. Though if you accept that as removing their right to live there then surely you'll have no problem with Israel doing the same to the Palestinians).
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You realize when you get automated out of your job, you need a new job? The "interesting problems" you'll be left with are hoping that you don't need to go to the ER after your health insurance ends
Thanks for this, I was very eager to try it out but this is a always a deal breaker.
Hi John,

I saw you were looking for interesting startup opportunities! We're looking for people that share our passion for creating and fostering relationships and self growth. We have a small team of engineers and looking to grow in the next few months. We have a strong core team culture of authentic caring and we're looking for engineers that are interested in being mentored and mentoring, working with our product team to design larger features, and can help us grow our engineering culture.

We're a dating service that uses human matchmakers. Founded by Stanford alumni in 2012, we've built a successful platform that generates over $30m/year with little capital raised. Our diverse team includes a leadership team that's 50/50 men & women, and our backgrounds include life coaches to writers to engineers.

Free for a phone call sometime this week or the next to learn more about the company? If so, please schedule time on my calendar using the link below.
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Take care,
Erica
>pun

>you win the internet

>downvote

It is against the rules to tell you which rule you are breaking. hint hint.
The regions where the plant is considered native, how aggressive it spreads (there is some metric that captures this IIRC), and regions where it is labeled as invasive. The PictureThis app shows this info, and it's incredibly useful.
Interesting - so essentially calling a "non-const" (mutable) method invalidates any existing references to the object, with this being implemented at compile time by not allowing the mutable method to be called while other references are still alive ?

How exactly is this defined for something like index() which is returning a reference to a different type than the object itself, and where the declaration doesn't indicate that the referred to T is actually part of the parent object? Does the language just define that all references (of any type) returned by member functions are "invalidated" (i.e. caught by compiler borrow checker) by the mutable member call?

What happens in Rust if you attempt to use a reference to an object after the object lifetime has ended? Will that get caught at compile time too, and if so at what point (when attempt is made to use the reference, or at end of object lifetime) ?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth

He even uses `sabdfl` as his handle.
Nothing necessarily antidemocratic about conscription. Finland is a democracy and has conscription.

You need to focus your outrage on Russia for invading Ukraine

instead of Ukraine for defending itself.
Humans are good at adapting to the common operations of even the worst user interfaces and then they will stop thinking about how awkward they are.

The iPhone is lauded as having a good UX. I think (even confining yourself to Apple's own apps) it's actually pretty inconsistent and a lot of things you "just have to know" because there are no cues that would lead you to discovery. But millions of people use them mindlessly because they have adapted to them.
I go to chatgpt for boilerplate library stuff, but S/O had actual people responding. It was a great thing that Guido was taking the time to respond human to human for questions related to how certain things are implemented.
It can be argued that having a nice big consolidated target makes it easier to regulate, though.
RIP Graeber.
They have blocked me so I can't read their tweets.
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What would be a typical coding question which AI would not be able to answer in the near future without having access to Stack Overflow?

I find it hard to imagine that AI will need humans to teach it technologies like programming languages and APIs for long.

We don't need humans to teach computers how to play chess anymore.
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This is USA only.
Just checked, there doesn't seem to be an option for it (though technically it should be possible, I think). Sorry to hear about Verizon - hopefully mobile will soon be a viable option for you. Good luck!
In reality accessibility is going to be solved by the OS, browser, and browser plugins.
> you'll be left with are hoping that you don't need to go to the ER after your health insurance ends

This is a US-only problem. The majority of software professionals in the world do not reside in the US.
> > it's okay to make financial decisions that don't make any sense on paper if they work for you

I consider that to be (mostly) pernicious nonsense, like ‘it’s okay to walk off of a cliff, if that works for you.’ To a very great degree, finances are a mathematical/legal reality: the path of wisdom is to adjust one’s emotions to that reality rather than to imagine that reality matches one’s emotions.

There is some degree of truth to it, of course: at the end of the day, life is not about maximising one’s finances, and one’s emotions definitely have a role to play in one’s happiness. But the sooner one learns to defer immediate gratification, save for the future and build up a nest egg, the happier one is likely to be.
You could maybe have them kneel on a spinning platform instead but I think you would still want their head on the same side of the rotation axis as their feet for example. Also I wonder how long you'd need to do this to allow the body to properly clear the built up fluids.
I really love the custom icons, it makes me wish the thumbnails were botanist illustrations.
Exactly. Breaks aren't for when you're "in the zone" but "in the grind." They're best for breaking out of a haze when you're just spinning your wheels or for reminding you to refresh your batteries a bit (physically, mentally) when you are slogging through some tedious work.

You'd be surprised how often breaks hit reset when you are mindlessly "working hard" but not working effectively. You come back with new energy and perspective.
Yes. Often the need is best understood through iteration, but certainly having "eyes on" by the ultimate customer helps. Once I was told by marketing that security was not important. The customers got a prototype and screamed bloody murder. I think the moral of the story is to view the development of a product as a collaboration between all parties. All, including customers.

If there are silos of concerns then you can end up with a beer distribution game.

And this: "You measure progress mostly by how much you reduce uncertainty." is very succinct
One reason this American (me) says "South Asian" is because here "Indian" also means "indigenous North American".

If hypothetically the government of India were to declare that the name in English of the country shall in the future be "Bharat" or "Hindustan", Americans would rapidly switch to the new name, and I would no longer be tempted to say "South Asian" when I mean Indian.
My "man", next you'll tell me the USA won WW2 all by its lonesome, won't you?
Every Unix and most Unixlikes have always done this. It’s standard practice in that world.
Steve Jobs and the Amiga
How many of our bacteria made their way to Mars?
This is very true in my experience as well.

This is a key component for any good low/no code platform, process builders, workflow builders , process documentation and so on. And that is just one area.

It makes tons of sense to buy/use a library like this rather than build your own (unless that is your business).
We use one from antd. Antiquated and hard to automate testing. We are looking for a more modern solution.

How compatible is GoJS with web testing tools? Most seem to have trouble with canvas.
Pretty much all companies (and people) make mistakes. I'd rather reward those that are willing to acknowledge and walk back mistakes than those that don't, especially to show them where they can see that they did the right thing and encourage them to do the right thing next time.

As long as those mistakes didn't result in horrible, life-ending consequences, at least (and I'm sorry, but forcing a PSN sign up is not one of those reasons, it's relatively minor, I just didn't really feel like supporting it since I had plenty of other games to play anyway).

Actually the biggest thing that kept me from buying it (and why I didn't buy it right away) is it seems like it doesn't have a very good single-player mode, and I mostly play games single player now (too many assholes have ruined most multiplayer games). But I've been hearing such good things about it I've been tempted to get it anyway. But the bad news was just enough for me to go "well, maybe not yet."

Also I don't think I've given Ticketmaster any money in years, but I don't go to too many live shows anymore. The couple I have are for the rare U.S. appearances of comedy groups like Letterkenny and Aunty Donna, but even then I want to say those were through AXS and not Ticketmaster, and that doesn't seem to be affiliated with Ticketmaster. It's hard to avoid giving Ticketmaster money unless you never go see any in-person shows, though, which is kind of shitty.
> Way more of those kids are vaping marijuana, which has an orders of magnitude lower threat profile than both smoking AND tobacco vape oil rigs.

Very much depends on how you define threat.

I'd very much prefer that the driver in the other lane is smoking a ciggy rather that vaping marijuana in the interest of preserving their individual health.
Yep, knowing this problem well, I asked a question the other day and defensively linked to the other similar questions to explain why they were not duplicates. My question was still closed with the claim of it being a duplicate. Last time I’ll ever bother trying to use SO again.

The decision to close my question in spite of it having a clear technical difference made no sense at all. It honestly felt like a bot that just noticed that a lot of the content of the question was related to other questions-a bot without the ability to understand why the question is literally different.

Why is SO like this these days. Is it just because there is such a large history of content in the site, that it’s easy for people who don’t want to think to just mark questions closed?
Maybe, and I hope so, but the cynic in me feels it would act as a higher incentive to invest far more into lobbying against any meaningful regulation.
Which distro ships the go standard library?

Also unixes let the sysadmin install additional libraries. How do I `apt install libswift2` on an iPhone?
> why Javascript

Because no one's paying me, so my choice in language is about how easy I can do things like async code, hot reloading, and fast enough performance to not feel like the language itself is the bottleneck, and that makes JS a no-brainer (especially as Modern JS is quite fast, too!)

> Isn't Javascript just too finicky for something like this?

Maybe you're thinking of JS as a browser language, in which case: no, it's been a general purpose programming language with a standard library for over a decade now in the form of Node.js, which has been keeping in lockstep with the development of the language itself (which has changed a lot over the last decade, so if you've not looked at modern JS circa 2022~2024, it's rather different now =)
Hi Austin,
I saw you were looking for interesting startup opportunities! We're looking for people that share our passion for creating and fostering relationships and self growth. We have a small team of engineers and looking to grow in the next few months. We have a strong core team culture of authentic caring and we're looking for engineers that are interested in being mentored and mentoring, working with our product team to design larger features, and can help us grow our engineering culture.
We're a dating service that uses human matchmakers. Founded by Stanford alumni in 2012, we've built a successful platform that generates over $30m/year with little capital raised. Our diverse team includes a leadership team that's 50/50 men & women, and our backgrounds include life coaches to writers to engineers.
Free for a phone call sometime this week or the next to learn more about the company? If so, please schedule time on my calendar using the link below. https://calendly.com/erica-gacon

Take care,
Erica
What do you mean? We routinely do satellite communications with free space optics, and fibre comms which at the backbone of all modern comms uses light around 193 THz.
And that pure US hubris right there is the reason for your reputation around the world. You should travel more. These people you are "helping" hate. Your. Guts.

But you might just remain convinced that you are just better because murica.
Why is “easy to regulate “ a good thing?
I do like me some Earth Defense Force, at least the older ones (haven't tried the newer ones). I'll keep an eye out for EDF6.
So, we're supposed to get excited about Indeed jobs with a StackOverflow skin?
Fisker fixing some customers' cars with parts from company's vehicle 'graveyard'
This is already beginning I think. Right now usually with some irony but that's how these things start sometimes.
>> If you can't pay, they'll take your house and everything else until they decide that the debt is paid.

This is new. Mortgages in the US traditionally took just the home as collateral. Thanks for the reminder that this is now a thing to look out for, as I may need to borrow one more time than I ever expected.
Hi Adam,
I saw you were looking for interesting startup opportunities! We're looking for people that share our passion for creating and fostering relationships and self growth. We have a small team of engineers and looking to grow in the next few months. We have a strong core team culture of authentic caring and we're looking for engineers that are interested in being mentored and mentoring, working with our product team to design larger features, and can help us grow our engineering culture.
We're a dating service that uses human matchmakers. Founded by Stanford alumni in 2012, we've built a successful platform that generates over $30m/year with little capital raised. Our diverse team includes a leadership team that's 50/50 men & women, and our backgrounds include life coaches to writers to engineers.
Free for a phone call sometime this week or the next to learn more about the company? If so, please schedule time on my calendar using the link below. https://calendly.com/erica-gacon

Take care,
Erica
Is that a problem? One learns by making mistakes, just wait until your mind gets bothered enough to remember to separate contexts. If your editor allows it, try making one filetype background different from the other to help with identification.
"Society" and "Civilization" are very loaded terms, and by "Society" Wang specifically meant the community aspect of society.

For example, he is very positive about the kind of direct democracy he saw in Belmont, MA (the classic New England Town Meeting), and viewed that as a cornerstone of American society, along with a shared vision of innovation and development.

Fundamentally, the core pieces of America that Wang looked up to were the same pieces of policy and legislation that were pushed in the Progressive Era [0] as well as by FDR as part of his New Deal [1] and LBJ as part of his Great Society [2].

In essence, the vision that Wang and Xi are pushing within China today is basically an Authoritarian but also decentralized version of the Great Society and New Deal.

[0] - https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-wo...

[1] - https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-wo...

[2] - https://library.fiveable.me/apush/unit-8/great-society/study...
Funny how this is announced in the same week that the user with the second-highest reputation on Stack Overflow admitted to having written thousands of answers using an AI tool (https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/430072/a-commitment...).
> You are right that there is tons of resentment around the DEI BS that people have to go through. Tech companies have esoteric training problems with terms like "allyship" and "bystander effect" and all that which basically smells rotten to lot of engineers but they cynically complete those trainings any ways.

I think this is probably a feature not a bug. Companies are all about having programs whose sole purpose is to limit liability and to (for lack of a better term) quite cynically virtue signal. And if that causes the programs to be hated and later dismantled, all the better -- because it was never about actually achieving DEI but about appearing to support it. All of the corporate DEI training that I've been through were considered "cringeworthy" by literally everyone in the company. And this was in a very left-leaning company, but it was run by mostly a pile of middle aged white guys at the top.
Respectfully, I think your take that this "has nothing to do with the ultra wealthy" is exceptionally naive.

We know with absolute certainty that much worse atrocities happen in places like Russia and China. What makes you think that the US is immune to that kind of thing?

We don't have quite the same problems and they aren't so obvious.

But every once in a while, the curtain comes down and you get to see how things really are.

Wide-scale domestic surveillance. The US government chasing so hard after people like Snowden and Assange. Bernie Sanders being completely ignored by the Democratic Party in 2016. Epstein being mysteriously killed.

The US does not openly speak about its corruption, but there is plenty of it anyway.

While we are a democratic country don't forget that democracy is something you fight for every day. And if you look around, when is the last time there was a serious fight put up for democracy?
> This is the "top 1,000,000 web sites", which is going to represent the majority if not all of the average user's experience of the internet.

It's only home pages, not the whole web site, which would often be the marketing page on the large ones (check out what stackoverflow gives you when logged out, for example). They even say they skipped sites without a home page.

This doesn't represent an average user's experience of the internet.
How is this any different than influencers being required to disclose a paid promotion by the FTC?
Haha, that's fantastic. Trying to see if there is any way to tie baguettes, Bezier curves, and autopilots into a single thing, but until Microsoft releases Bread Simulator 2025 I might be out of luck there =D
Matthew was shitting on systemd and pulling no shots. Poettering calling Matthew a scriptkiddie is mild.

He did call me a "facist weenie" with no clear reason why beyond me pushing back on their grand claims.
Not OP, but I’ve been trying to formulate problems in ways that first principles and primary sources (language docs, etc) can answer. It’s more work but also more rewarding and a better learning experience for me.
> OpenAI has enough motivation to circumvent whatever anti-scraping measures stackoverflow could muster.

And even greater motivation to just cooperate with StackOverflow for mutual benefit, rather than engage in a ridiculous arms race with them.

> I assume stackoverflow's metrics (traffic, number of new questions and answers) are down by an amount they are not happy with, so they are eager to strike any deal before their ship sinks.

I'm not sure I'd understand the connection to this even if that were true. The value StackOverflow seems to be bringing to the table is specifically a large dataset of human-curated technical knowledge. Both parties in this arrangement would have strong interest in ensuring that StackOverflow continues to generate this data through its user-centric Q&A website. I'm not sure how a deal with OpenAI would prevent their "ship" from "sinking" if that were the situation they were in.

> Personally, I'm as often on stackoverflow, as I've ever been, whereas my chatGPT usage is down to almost zero.

Same here. ChatGPT is a nice novelty, but I haven't found all that much productive use for it. Most people I know who do use it regularly are using it for either correcting their spelling/grammar, or as a conversational-interface search engine, neither of which I find to be superior to proofreading my own writing or evaluating information from its original sources after doing a conventional search.

But there might be a value-add for StackOverflow in the latter case: finding specific answers to complex questions can be a hit-or-miss proposition, and ChatGPT might at least provide a more efficient way of finding the articles that answer your questions, if implemented properly.

Of course, implementing it properly would likely involve designing the LLM to track the sources of the data it's tokenizing, and present a 'bibliography' for each of its answers, rather than just blindly compositing data from all sources into single probability values.
great post! off to calculate TTC for my company right now..
SO has to make a decision of how much can they prove in court. If they can prove it, what kind of damages might they be awarded, and if any rewards would cover the the expense of bringing the case forward. If any of those questions are a "no", then you have to try to save face some how. This is that face saving move. So to me, it sounds like they decided "no" was an answer somewhere in the decision tree.

When you steal, steal big. You go to jail for stealing someone's things, but if you steal everyone's things, then it's just too much for people to handle and they'd rather the whole thing just goes away really. (maybe I've read too much Douglas Adams)
Yes, and to me the logical conclusion of that is to not worry about how complex React is. I'm sure someone somewhere needed the complexity of each feature somewhere along the line. Is it more than I need? Yes, but maybe someday the complexity will be something I appreciate. And in the meantime, you can just ignore it since it's not directly in your path.